All Urban transport vehicles articles – Page 22
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Metro Report InternationalElectric buses on Chicago’s Route 66
USA: Chicago Transit Board awarded Proterra a $32m contract on June 13 for the supply of 20 electric buses. Due to arrive in 2018-20, the buses will be used on routes 66 and 124. The order follows CTA’s testing of two electric buses since 2014. The contract includes ...
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Metro Report InternationalElectric buses ordered for Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND: Christchurch bus operator Red Bus has ordered three Enviro200EV battery buses from a joint venture of Alexander Dennis and battery supplier BYD. The 12 m long buses will have a capacity of 60 passengers and will be air-conditioned. Due to be delivered in March, the vehicles ...
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NewsCAF to supply 87 trams to Oslo
NORWAY: Oslo public transport operator Sporveien has selected CAF to supply 87 trams, it announced on June 11. The €200m contract includes options for 60 more vehicles. CAF is to supply 100% low-floor Urbos 100 trams similar to those that it has supplied to Nantes in France. Designated SL18 ...
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NewsSolaris signs Milano trolleybus contract
ITALY: Milano public transport operator ATM has signed a €61·5m framework contract with Solaris for the supply of up to 80 trolleybuses. An initial batch of 30 articulated Trollino 18 vehicles from the base order are due to be delivered in mid-2019. Each vehicle will be fitted with two ...
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NewsBelkommunmash signs Minsk battery bus contract
BELARUS: Belkommunmash has signed a contract to supply 60 battery electric buses to Minsk. Deliveries are due to be completed by the end of April 2019, with the first 17 to arrive by the end of 2018. BKM will supply 28 articulated Vitovt Max Electro buses, also designated E433. ...
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NewsFreiburg orders more CAF trams
GERMANY: Freiburg public transport operator VAG signed a contract with CAF on June 6 for the supply of five Urbos 100 trams to operate on they city’s metre-gauge network. Deliveries are due to be completed by mid-2020. The trams are intended to replace the remaining five high-floor GT8K vehicles. ...
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NewsCAF to supply more trams to Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG: Project promoter Luxtram has selected CAF to supply 12 trams for the next phase of the Luxembourg City tram line. The contract for Urbos 3 trams is worth €40m. CAF supplied the initial fleet of 21 trams under a contract signed in 2015. These have been in revenue ...
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NewsLund tram supplier selected
SWEDEN: Regional transport authority Skånetrafiken has selected CAF to supply seven trams to operate on the tram line that is under construction in Lund. The contract for the five-section Urbos trams includes options for more vehicles. CAF will provide 10 years of maintenance for the 32 m long vehicles. ...
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Metro Report InternationalSouth Wales Metro plans announced
UK: Electrification of commuter routes radiating from Cardiff, new rolling stock fleets to operate them and new stations are envisaged under the 15-year Operations & Development Partner contract awarded by the Welsh government to KeolisAmey on June 4. The contract to operate passenger services throughout Wales runs until October ...
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NewsNovocherkassk signs new tram contract
RUSSIA: Trading company Fobos-TS has won a 78m rouble contract to supply four trams to Novocherkassk. Deliveries are due by the end of September. The vehicles are likely to be made by Uraltransmash. Earlier this month Fobos-TS signed a contract to supply 20 UTM trams to Kazan. Novocherkassk ...
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NewsTehran metro car order derailed
IRAN: A deal for Stadler Rail to supply rolling stock for two of the country’s metro networks is expected to collapse as a result of US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear limitation agreement and reimpose sanctions. At the end of February, ...
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NewsSolaris wins Hamburg electric bus order
GERMANY: Solaris is to supply 10 electric buses to Hamburg public transport operator Hochbahn, the company announced on May 24. Two of the Urbino 12 vehicles are due to be delivered later this year, with the remaining eight to come in September 2019. The buses will have capacity ...
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NewsVDL wins Umeå electric bus contract
SWEDEN: VDL Bus & Coach is to supply 25 articulated electric buses to Umeå municipality, the manufacturer announced on May 23. The Citeas SLFA-180 buses are expected to enter service in June 2019 on routes 1 and 8, operated by Transdev Sverige. The buses will be fitted with 48 ...
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NewsSKM Warszawa signs Pesa Elf2 order
POLAND: Suburban rail operator SKM Warszawa signed a contract with Pesa on May 21 for the supply of up to 21 Elf2 electric multiple-units. Deliveries of the base order of eight five-car and five four-car trainsets are due to be completed within two years. The contract is worth 310·5m ...
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NewsKazan orders more Uraltransmash trams
RUSSIA: Kazan transport agency Metroelectrotrans has signed contract with trading company Fobos-TS for the supply of 20 Uraltransmash 71-407 trams. Deliveries are due to be completed by the end of August. The 340m rouble order includes a 160m rouble contribution from the government’s programme of federal funding to stimulate ...
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NewsDurmazlar to supply trams to Olsztyn
POLAND: Sole bidder Durmazlar has been selected to supply up to 24 trams to Olsztyn, the city announced on May 16. The base order covers 12 trams for 107·9m złoty. This would rise to 206·2m złoty if all options were to be exercised. The first two trams are ...
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NewsMoscow orders 200 battery buses
RUSSIA: Moscow bus operator Mosgortrans has selected two manufacturers to supply a total of 200 electric buses and charging infrastructure. KAMAZ and GAZ are each to supply 100 low-floor battery buses. Each of the 6·35bn rouble orders include 15 years of maintenance, as well as the installation and maintenance ...
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NewsVDL wins Oslo electric bus order
NORWAY: Greater Oslo bus operator Unibuss placed an order for 40 electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach on May 8. Unibuss has ordered 30 Citeas SLFA-180 Electric buses, which have a 169 kWh battery pack, to operate on routes 20, 21, 28, 34, 37 and 54. A further ...
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NewsGrand Paris selects supplier for up to 1 000 driverless train cars
FRANCE: Alstom has been selected as preferred bidder to supply up to 1 000 large-profile metro cars to operate three lines of the automated Grand Paris Express network, project promoter Société du Grand Paris announced on May 2. As part of its 2010 mandate to deliver the infrastructure for ...
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NewsDortmund orders 24 light rail vehicles
GERMANY: Dortmund public transport authority DSW21 has awarded a €195m contract to a consortium of HeiterBlick and Kiepe Electric to supply 24 light rail vehicles and modernise 64 from the existing fleet. The first of the new high-floor bidirectional two-section LRVs is due to be delivered in 2020 and ...